Farting is a natural behaviour that everyone has, but many people think farting makes people feel embarrassed and try to endure farting. In fact, it is harmful to their health. Many people don’t know where the fart will go. According to a video released by Karan Rajan, a surgeon from the National Health Service (NHS), when we suppress fart, it will re-enter the blood and then breathe out with our breath.
Each of us farts an average of 14 times in a day, and the farts emitted in a day can fill a medium-sized balloon, Karan said. 75% of these farts come from bacteria in our large intestine. when food that has not been completely decomposed enters the digestive system, it will be swallowed by the bacteria to produce trace amounts of air. When this air accumulates, it will form a fart to be excreted from the body. The other 25% is the air we swallow when we talk and eat, as well as the air produced by the blood circulation that runs into the intestine.
99% of the components in the fart is hydrogen, carbon dioxide and methane, the other 1% is from soluble sulfur compounds such as hydrogen sulfide, and 1% is the source of odour. If someone says that they have never farted, please ask them to go to the hospital for examination immediately, because the reason for not farting is intestinal obstruction, and you must see a doctor.
So which one is healthier with more or less farting? Never laugh at someone who farts a lot, because farts a little don’t mean it’s a good thing. After eating and digesting every day, we will definitely produce exhaust gas which will be excreted out of the body through the fart. Not farting means that these exhaust gases are absorbed again or excreted through another route. Over time, chronic poisoning will form.
More farts aren’t necessarily good. You must understand that farting is actually a manifestation of digestion. It is healthy if the emitted fart is waste gas, but we cannot tell whether the emitted fart is a real waste gas. Therefore, if you fart too much, you should pay attention to diet and digestive function. If you often eat a large number of sweet potatoes, onions, soybeans and other food, once digested will become carbon dioxide, hydrogen and hydrogen sulfide, which will cause flatulence and increase the number of farts. Some people have a weak digestive function and the bacteria in the intestinal tract can easily ferment to produce bad gases and increase the number of farts.
Farts stink because they eat lots of fried foods and meat products. So if you want to make your farts less smelly, you have to eat less of this kind of food. The sound of farting is caused by the vibration of the anal sphincter combined with the hip collision when we fart.
If your farts smell bad and you have abdominal pain or fever, go to a hospital for a check-up. If you smell fishy when farting, it means you have gastrointestinal bleeding, and you must seek medical treatment. If you don’t usually eat too much meat or spicy food, but the fart is very smelly, then be on your guard. This is because it is very likely that there is an endocrine disorder in the intestine or inflammation in the intestine, and if it is serious, there may be a tumour.
Farting may make us feel embarrassed sometimes, but for the sake of our health, we still have to let out the farts!
